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Women are still struggling to break the glass ceiling in corporate South Africa, with only 306 directorships out of 2 851 held by women.
The ANC is in no danger of losing the election. But the party shows signs of losing voters’ unquestioning struggle loyalty.
The ANC leadership in the North West has, as expected, nominated President Thabo Mbeki to continue for another term as party president. Although the formal nomination process…
Tokyo Sexwale’s star is on the rise. He has secured a foothold in at least four major provinces where senior party leaders have been lobbying for his election as ANC president. A…
Told in the first person, Elias Masilela’s<b> Number 43 Trelawney Park KwaMagoga</b> (David Philip) puts a tragic, and in some ways nostalgic, human face to life in exile during…
SACP general secretary Blade Nzimande definitely does not lead the life of a ”horny-handed son of toil”. The Mail & Guardian understands that his salary is equivalent to that of…
Emboldened by a resurgence of international communism and the ANC’s leftward shift, the South African Communist Party has proposed far-reaching constitutional amendments that it…
Last week’s ANC policy conference brought to mind a traditional proclamation: The king is dead. Long live the king! However one interprets the minutiae of ANC pronouncements on…
Metsimaholo municipality in the Free State, where an angry mob of citizens killed an ANC councillor on Monday, ranks as the best performing municipality in the province according…
Delegates at the African National Congress’s (ANC) policy conference this week seemed on course to ensure that President Thabo Mbeki’s legacy of centralising power in the Union…
Zwelinzima Vavi does not seem to run out of hyperbole to illustrate what is wrong with the government’s economic policies. "It is like a doctor saying an operation has been…
ANC deputy president Jacob Zuma would not alter the broad parameters of South Africa’s economic policy, but believes the national treasury has usurped the people "as the driver…
South African Communist Party treasurer general Phillip Dexter has warned that a culture of ”revisionism, opportunism, ideological incoherence and factionalism” is consuming the…
Stubborn, contradictory, a lame duck and surly. These are just some of the words used to describe Thabo Mbeki. But writer Ronald Suresh Roberts takes a different view. Roberts…
Like the African National Congress’s (ANC) national general council two years ago, the party’s national policy conference in two weeks’ time looks set to be an explosive affair.…
Deaths in South Africa are rising, largely as a result of three illnesses linked to HIV and Aids, Statistics SA has disclosed. A Stats SA report, Mortality and Causes, released…
In the Free Republic of Aburiria, the fabled subject of Ngugi wa’Thiongo’s latest novel Wizard of the Crow, a nationwide queuing epidemic symbolic of a poverty-stricken nation…
It is exactly six months before 5 600 delegates descend on Polokwane in Limpopo for the ANC’s 52nd national conference, when the election of South Africa’s future president lies…
Delta Environmental Centre is at the forefront of shaping the environmental education and the attitudes of South Africa’s future generations to preserve our ecosystems and add…
The latest spat between President Thabo Mbeki and Cosatu general secretary Zwelinzima Vavi followed a meeting earlier this year in which Mbeki allegedly accused the labour…
